Norwegian Woman Raped. Thrown in prison for it.

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Pot shots are what crack pots shout from the back of a room filled with people.

Hunters take precision shots that end the animals life humanely.

Pot shots are for crack pots.

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The vast majority of hunters have a very deep appreciation of nature and animals... The only guy we let hunt our land is a conservationist and environmentalist, through and through. Half the time he is shooting the animals with his camera, the other half with his gun. He uses just about everything off the body, and would never take a shot he wasn't absolutely positive would kill the animal humanely. In fact, he has been known to get into confrontations with the rare hunter who doesn't exhibit the amount of respect he does, and he keeps such assholes off our land. Whenever the coyote population around here gets too high and the animals suffer because of it - dozens of coyotes starving to death, with rampant disease - he ends their lives humanely. In doing so he protects not only the wildlife population, but the human population as well.

Anybody who holds such ignorant views about what hunting is and how necessary it is for the safety of animals and humans alike, deserves to be held with total contempt.

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So this thread...the hunting bit, not the rape bit....sent me on a little voyage of intellectual discovery.

I love American culture(s) and I love exploring the origins of where we get stuff in our culture(s). The hunting this got me thinking "where do we get our (largely) positive attitudes towards it?". the American attitude towards hunting is not one found in the UK, even historically...but it is found elsewhere in Europe, specially the Alps - Southern Germany, Switzerland, Austria.

Then I had my ahhhh-ha! moment. That makes perfect sense. The early English settlers of North America, while not doubt hunting a bit, were by-in-large fixated on commercial farming. We didn't become great hunters until German and Swiss immigrants moved to Penn in the late 17th and early 18th centuries and brought one of history's greatest inventions with them:



the rifle.

That's when our hunting and indeed firearms culture really take off....the English in the North-east and Scotch-Irish in the South soon picked up on the rifle and the hunting culture that came with it. Throw in lots of contact with Native People and you have America's attitudes towards hunting.

So that's why when a Brit hears "hunting" they think this:


and when an American hears 'hunting" they think this:

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